Just what Broadway needed — vampires! “True Blood: The Musical” is aiming to sink its teeth into the Great White Way.

Just what Broadway needed — vampires! "True Blood: The Musical" is aiming to sink its teeth into the Great White Way.

Composer Nathan Barr and actor Stephen Moyer, who stars as enlightened bloodsucker "Vampire Bill" Compton on the HBO show, have put together a musical version of the hit series that they hope to bring to Broadway.

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"I helped Nathan with some of the songs and we presented them to producers," Moyer told Confidenti@l at the "True Blood" season seven premiere in L.A. Tuesday, where he was joined by wife and co-star Anna Paquin. "It is really interesting what he is doing and the music was actually quite good."

Though he was happy to help Barr behind the scenes, Moyer, who starred in NBC's highly rated live telecast of "The Sound of Music" last December, tells us he won't be playing "Vampire Bill" on Broadway.

Anna Paquin, left, and Stephen Moyer at the L.A. premiere for the seventh and final season of 'True Blood' (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

"Working in Broadway is tough and we have a young family here in L.A. And this stage show would be a younger man's role," says Moyer, 44. "It's time for me to move on from this now. I have loved every minute of it, but Anna and I are laying it to rest."

This isn't the first time a popular TV vampire show has taken a stab at the musical genre. In November 2001, UPN's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" aired a 50-minute, one-time musical episode called "One More, With Feeling," which is widely regarded as that show's finest hour. It even enjoyed a limited cinema run.

Moyer, who directed the June 22 premiere of the final season of "True Blood," also tells us he had no problem watching the series' hunky star Joe Manganiello nibble on his wife in the episode's opening scene.

Joe Manganiello and Anna Paquin team up for a scene in 'True Blood.' (John P. Johnson/AP)

"I've directed all of Joe's sex scenes in the show, and we are good mates. So I just said to him beforehand, 'Joe, just go for it,' " he said. "And he did!"

Moyer says he filmed more than five minutes of passion between Manganiello and Paquin, though it had to be edited down a bit.

"If anything, I wanted it to be longer because I directed that scene as a really powerful moment to show that these two characters do really love one another," he said. "Anna doesn't really say anything about these sex scenes anymore, after what we've done on the show. But I thought she and Joe looked good together."